If you are using docker in docker (dind) to create docker containers in a gitlab environment you can use the following snippet to easily use an insecure registry: An insecure registry with public access is of course a bad idea …

There isn’t much documentation on the great Poolboy worker pool factory. Here are some notes that will hopefully help to understand Poolboy a little bit better. Notes on the usage See https://github.com/devinus/poolboy for the original “documentation”. Many will know, but somehow I didn’t: The workers are idle in the pool. One takes them out of …

Since the second to latest kernel update of debian stable my screen flickered in normal xfce4 when there was movement on the screen. I thought it was a bug because i had nothing changed but the recent kernel update did not fix that. It took me some time but if you experience the same you …

Get qrencode. It’s in a lot of repositories. In a terminal (http://project-hardware.net is just a text example) echo “http://project-hardware.net” | qrencode -o out.png Open out.png with an image viewer and scan it with your barcode scanner on your smartphone Done. Fully sufficient for small texts. For storage limits take a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Storage

… is quite simple. You get your hands on eatmydata. Yes it’s not a convincing name but hey it’s in the standard repositories of debian and ubuntu so it should do you no harm 🙂 sudo apt-get -y install eatmydata How to use it sudo eatmydata apt-get <your regular stuff / install / update /…> …

I’ve written a small script to remote control a computer via wake on lan (WOL) packages. This could come in quite handy if my raspberry pi finally arrives but any HTPC owner could make use of this too. (You don’t want to run xbmc along with your torrent client (and vice versa) all day long, …